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I am using R version 3.2.3 in Linux mint 17.3 64 bit. I was trying to install the package "car" with dependencies=TRUE, but the installation failed with the following error messages:

> warnings()
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘minqa’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘RcppEigen’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘leaps’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘lmtest’ had non-zero exit status
5: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘rgl’ had non-zero exit status
6: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘SparseM’ had non-zero exit status
7: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘quantreg’ had non-zero exit status
8: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘lme4’ had non-zero exit status
9: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘effects’ had non-zero exit status
10: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘pbkrtest’ had non-zero exit status
11: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘car’ had non-zero exit status
12: In install.packages("car", dependencies = T) :
installation of package ‘alr4’ had non-zero exit status

How do I resolve the issue? Please help.

lmo
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Bishwarup Paul
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  • The answer here may explain your error: [“installation of package 'FILE_PATH' had non-zero exit status” in R](http://stackoverflow.com/a/27894019/3560695) – Therkel Feb 26 '16 at 09:27
  • trying to manually install the dependent packages has worked for me before `install.packages("minqa")` and then go down the line until all dependencies have been installed. – Brandon Loudermilk Feb 26 '16 at 09:29
  • Installation of the package "minqa" itself is also giving error. – Bishwarup Paul Feb 26 '16 at 09:51
  • What *kind* of error? The one with an error message? – mrub Feb 26 '16 at 09:56
  • `* installing *source* package ‘minqa’ ...` `** package ‘minqa’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked` `** libs` `gfortran -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -c altmov.f -o altmov.o` `/bin/bash: gfortran: command not found` `make: *** [altmov.o] Error 127` `ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘minqa’` `* removing ‘/home/bishwarup/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/minqa’` `Warning in install.packages :` `installation of package ‘minqa’ had non-zero exit status` – Bishwarup Paul Feb 26 '16 at 11:01
  • Ubuntu 22.04 and RStudio 4.2.1 (as of October 2022) and NO solution below works. – luchonacho Oct 28 '22 at 16:17

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I finally found the solution. After looking at the error message for installing "minqa", I realized that the installer was unable to find gfortran. So I installed gfortran,then tried to install "car" again. This time I got another error message saying that -llapack -lblas were not found. Therefore, according to this link: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack I installed packages "liblapack-dev", "liblapack3", "libopenblas-base" and "libopenblas-dev". After that, the "car" package was successfully installed.

oszkar
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Bishwarup Paul
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Install r-cran-car

Installing r-cran-car package on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) is as easy as running the following command on terminal:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install r-cran-car

Laban
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I had the same issue. In my case it was enough to install gcc-fortran on my machine.

Danny Zuko
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If you are using Anaconda, consider installing the gfortran package via conda. For example, on Mac:

conda install -c anaconda gfortran_osx-64
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When browsing through the output of install.packages("car"), I had the next error messages:

/bin/bash: gfortran: command not found
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lblas

After added the related packages to my Ubuntu system, everything worked fine.

sudo apt-get install gfortran liblapack-dev libblas-dev
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